1 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity (UUT)
3 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
4 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
6 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
7 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia "An important fantasy for some individuals is being transformed into the preferred object (such as a statue) and experiencing an associated state of immobility or paralysis."
14 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
18 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
20 creepy, crazy, or protected-class
24 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated)
26 The Strategy of "Apartment Patty"
28 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
30 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
32 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
36 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
37 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
39 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
43 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
45 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
47 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
52 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
54 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
58 Instrumental Categories, and War
60 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
62 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
64 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
66 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
68 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
70 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
72 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
75 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
76 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
79 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
81 The Parable of the Good Witch
83 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
84 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
86 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
88 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
89 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
91 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
93 Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle; Or, the Not-Being-a-Worthless-Coward Option (epigraph quote: Raleigh's "The Lie")—(include analogy: the fear that atheism would lead to immortality given that ppl don't have to fear Hell, wouldn't have seemed obviously absurd at the time) — honesty, ability to think, and mainstream credibility. The Kolmogorov option sacrifices a lot of honesty in exchange for mainstream credibility. This might seem like a good trade until you consider that "honesty" and "ability to think" aren't independent (because people are bad at compartmentalization and we need to talk to each other to think together).
95 Research Question: Complicity
96 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
98 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
99 In Praise of Cartesianism (you need to _really_ understand "A Human's Guide to Words" before you can do high-grade good-faith social constructionism)
101 Sex Differences and Commonsense Priors (I have parsimony intuitions that make "AGP is caused by pollution" or "AGP is normal in cis women" or "hormone receptors distributions are the same" seem not worth considering)
103 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
105 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
106 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
107 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
110 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
114 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
116 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
120 The Charity Convergence Trap
128 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
130 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
131 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
132 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
133 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
140 _ The View From Nowhere
144 _ reply to Ozy on https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-is-bad-science/ (when marketing in Culture War thread, maybe hat tip https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9cir3w/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_03/e5c1h2c/ )
145 _ Friendship Practices of ...
146 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
148 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
152 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
154 can the comment on "Bit Players" actually fit on this blog (I didn't empathize with offense at fake physics, but I can take offense at maximum-entropy psychology): epigraph quote, "It's Only a Paper Moon"
156 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
159 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
160 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
161 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
164 Product Review: FaceApp
166 Q Book Review: Nevada
167 Product Review: Oculus Go
169 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
175 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
176 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
177 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
178 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
180 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
181 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
182 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
183 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
184 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
185 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
186 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
187 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
188 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
189 (the story about my name)
190 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
191 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
192 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
193 go back to east bay tg club night?
194 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
195 Q This Is Worth a Fight
196 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
200 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
201 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
202 story about race of humans who have a "sneaky" camoflauge form and someone with their analogue of AGP tries to deliberately lower his status to get it
203 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_